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Co-authored by Sylvia Earle Six years ago we rushed to the Gulf of Mexico after Deepwater Horizon exploded and BP’s well gushed oil for 87 panicked-filled days of oiled beaches, oiled birds, oiled turtles, dead dolphins, and shattered human lives. But memories are short, so we’re drilling for more in harder, riskier places. Last month, […]

The Skeena River snakes out of fir-lined fjords on the misty northern coast of British Columbia, and washes over a thousand-acre sandbar. Flora Bank is a biological bottleneck over which millions of finger-length young salmon enter the sea each spring. Scientist Allen Gottesfeld calls Flora Bank the “Grand Central Station” for the watershed. All streams in the […]